On 1 July 2004, Kim Wilde and Ian Botham launch the project ‘Fix the Fells’. It is a vital part of a much larger project known as the Upland Path Landscape Restoration Project. This 10 year project started in 2002. The Heritage Lottery Fund is providing up to two thirds of the funding for the first five years.

The natural erosion caused by wind, ice and water is extremely slow. When you introduce feet the process speeds up rapidly and spoils the look of the landscape. It also makes paths unpleasant to walk on. The Lake District National Park Authority has identified 145 paths which have become eroded, mainly by the Lake District weather and 28 million feet walking in the area each year. To repair the majority of the footpath erosion in the English Lake District National Park, The Lake District National Park Authority, The National Trust and English Nature worked together to produce a management plan. With help from The Lake District Tourism and Conservation Partnership and Friends of the Lake District, they are committed to raising the funds necessary to pay for fell path repairs.

On 24 April 1994, the Flora Aerobathon was due to take place in various venues in the UK, such as the SECC in Glasgow and Earl’s Court in London. The event was to be the biggest indoor event in Britain, with 140,000 people jumping up and down to a dance beat in order to raise money for charity. Kim was one of the celebrity names, along with 2 Unlimited, Boy George, East 17, Gary Glitter and Lulu.

Unfortunately, only 17,000 people participated in the end and the organisation didn’t raise enough money to even pay for the event itself…

Norwegian slasher movie from 2010, known as ‘Cold Prey 3’ in other territories, directed by Mikkel Brænne Sandemose and starring Nils Johnson in the leading role. It is a prequel to the movies ‘Fritt Vilt I’ and ‘Fritt Vilt II’. The movie takes place in the 80’s where a group of teenagers go to visit an abandoned hotel, only to find themselves hunted by a psychotic killer through the Norwegian woods.

The soundtrack of the movie features the song You Keep Me Hangin’ On by Kim Wilde.

Special about Kim Wilde consisting of eight pages of information and photographs, folding out to a giant poster. The text is entirely in French, photographs mainly from Kim’s early years (1981-1983).

Release date: 1 February 1984
Publisher: Fan Mag S.A.R.L.
Number of pages: 16

Born 25 May 1960 in Maidstone, Kent (UK), Guy Fletcher was born into a musical family and is the namesake of his uncle, Guy Fletcher, who wrote several hit songs for other artists with composing partner Doug Flett. Whilst learning a trade as an audio engineer at DJM Studios in London at the age of 15, Fletcher also had a succession of his own bands and learned to play keyboards, guitars and other stringed instruments. He joined and toured with Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel in 1979 and in 1981, Roxy Music for their ‘Avalon’ world tour. In 1983, Fletcher was recruited by Dire Straits’ lead guitarist Mark Knopfler to work on the music for the films ‘Cal’ and ‘Comfort and Joy’. He joined Dire Straits in 1984, a year before their most successful album, ‘Brothers in Arms’, which put the band in a globally acclaimed spotlight.

In 1986, Fletcher co-produced Belouis Some’s self-titled album with Gary Langan. He also played keyboards on the track Brothers for Kim Wilde.

After Dire Straits disbanded, Fletcher continued to be associated with almost every single piece of work concerning Mark Knopfler’s solo career, the band’s former lead singer and guitarist. Between July and August, 2005, Fletcher completed a world tour with Mark Knopfler, promoting Knopfler’s latest solo album, ‘Shangri-La’.

Fletcher’s first solo album, ‘Inamorata’, was released in January 2008. It was followed by the albums ‘Stone’ (2009) and ‘Natural Selection’ (2010). His most recent album ‘High Roads’ was released in 2016.

Fletcher is a multi-instrumentalist, playing keyboard and several string instruments, including guitars. Also record producer and engineer. Owner of the studio A-Bay.

Album released on 18 May 2016. It features 14 songs by various artists from the 1980’s. Gary Barlow was the executive producer for this album; he also co-wrote nine of the songs. The album was inspired by the movie ‘Eddie the Eagle’, a biographical sports film about Michael Edwards, a British skier who in 1988 represented Great Britain at the Winter Olympics for ski jumping for the first time since 1928.
The album features the track Without Your Love by Kim Wilde.

Tracks

The album contains the following tracks:

FTU (Future Trance United) is a joint one-off project of Baracuda’s Axel Konrad, Megara vs. DJ Lee, Pulsedriver, Rocco vs. Bass-T and Special D. They all appear regularly on a German series of compilation album called Future Trance.

CREAM is the project of Sven Gruhnwald and Sebastian Göckede, also known as Rocco and Bass-T. (To further confuse things, they also used the pseudonyms Canarias, SveN-R-G vs. Bass-T, Punk Freakz and G&G).

FTU presenting CREAM released a CD-single in 2008 featuring a cover version of You Came. The CD-single featured five versions of the track.