Dear everyone,

It's just two days to go till the group do their first show in Yugoslavia (they're there already rehearsing the set) so as you can imagine it has been pretty hectic here over the past couple of months. Most evenings we're here till 8.00 or 9.00 PM and on a couple of occasions we've been here past midnight!

I hope that by now all of you who ordered tickets through the mailing list have received them. As you may have heard on the radio or TV, the Wembley shows set a booking record - the fastest sell-out there ever - and we added two extra shows on July 15th and 16th. That makes a total of 12 nights there - another record! The box office has so many applications for the initial run of dates that we never even announced the additional shows as the tickets went to people who couldn't get tickets for the dates they asked for - and still there were a lot of applications over. We also added another show at the NEC in Birmingham on July 1st which has sold out. The story has been the same all over Europe with dates selling out in record time - so with the single at 22 here and going up - things seem to be going pretty well!

The Royal Charity show on July 4th looks like being a pretty special occasion - we will probably have some special guests appearing but I won't tell you who - wait and see...

The day before the first Birmingham show we are all attending a big charity luncheon at the Intercontinental Hotel in London, where the group are guests of honour and are likely to win the Band Of The Year award, so if we all look a bit red-eyed at the NEC you'll know why.

TV NEWS
The band are appearing at this year's Montreux TV Festival, along with a lot of other artists including Bryan Ferry, Kool And The Gang, The Pointer Sisters, Dead Or Alive, Philip Bailey, Howard Jones, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Sting, Paul Young etc. etc., and this is scheduled to go out on TV in the UK on May 26th or 27th (probably the latter) so don't forget to watch!

VIDEO
Those of you who ordered Making Movies videos - sorry about the delay! Most of you should have by now received them. We have had incredible problems with Warner Home Video - the first batch they got had the picture out of sync with the sound, and even the batch we eventually got had a few faulty ones in it. I didn't have time to watch every single one, so I hope the ones I've sent out are all right. If not, give me a call and I will try and sort it out for you. The video offer is now closed, so please don't send me money!

Release date for the LP is now May 17th. Title is Brothers In Arms. Track listing is: So Far Away (the single), Money For Nothing, Walk Of Life, Your Latest Trick, Why Worry, Ride Across The River, The Man's Too Strong, One World and the title track. I'm not going to describe it to you (impossible) - make up your own minds and let us have your comments...

THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR
Mark has just done an interview for Sounds (for the issue the week of the LP release), and the Sunday Express colour supplement and Time Out will both carry interviews in July, at the time of the UK shows.

That's about it for now. Enjoy the LP!

Best wishes,

LATE NEWS EXTRA
The Tube are filming the band in Israel and this is scheduled to be on TV in the UK on June 21st (Midsummer Night's Tube). More details in next letter.

It looks 99% certain that the group will do another British tour in the autumn, to include the following places: Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, Bristol, Shepton Mallet, Birmingham, London, Deeside, and Belfast. Dublin is scheduled to follow after that... Again, more news follows.

I will probably be going to Athens next week to join the tour for a few days, so I won't be here if you call!