Well, Happy Birthday us. Yep, today is CMU's seventh birthday. Seven years have slipped on by since the Dandy Warhols graced the cover of the very first edition of the College Music Update. To celebrate we will be spending the day doing what every seven year old does - we'll eat a load of junk food, play the most violent PlayStation games we can find and emotionally blackmail our mothers into buying us some over-priced piece of Star Wars tat.
We're also marking the birthday by doing something we've been meaning to get round to ever since 18 May 1998 - putting a search function on the website. Yep, you can now search the entire CMU Daily archive and pull up all the stories relating to a specific artist, label or topic. Lovely. Just click the archive or search links at http://www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk/daily.
Lots of new things will be going on in the world of CMU during our seventh year - watch this space for more details. Meantime, birthday cards and presents (presents are preferable) can be sent to the address at the bottom of today's Daily. Just fyi: EMI people, I still don't own a copy of Queen's Greatest Hits on CD. SonyBMG people, I see Ben Folds is playing the Barbican later this month. Warner people, I didn't get to keep the CMU copies of the OC soundtracks. Universal people, please remarket that Loose Cannons album so it gets the mass success it really really deserves.
Have a nice day.