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Renowned Music Conductor Charles Hazlewood has announced that he will conducting a 45 minute Barry Gray set at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. This will be taking place at 1pm, on Sunday, June 29th on the Park Stage.

The Charles Hazlewood Allstars will be playing, featuring musicians from Goldfrapp, Portishead, Get the Blessing and Loose Tubes. Francois Evans will also be appearing, playing Barry Gray’s original Ondes Martenot.

Thunderbirds Toys are go for FEVA! A UK company called FEVA is working on a range of Thunderbirds toys from the new Thunderbirds movie. Photos and more to come soon!

Details are sketchy at the moment, mostly consisting of brief news articles in papers around the world. The Sun in the UK, ThaIndian (Thailand) and the Melbourne Herald Sun paper in Australia have all reported on this.

They all appear to say the same thing, with little details. Gerry Anderson is the only person who can do Thunderbirds right (take that Jonathan Frakes, et al). Although I'm sure he can buy the rights, its unknown how long it will take and then how long it will take to decide on the show format and produce it. Remember how long New Captain Scarlet took from initial concept?

As usual, we'll keep you posted.

Apparently,Thunderbirds (Classic Thunderbirds) is still very big in Japan. This comes as no surprise to any serious collector, as we have all been rampantly consuming the incredible Konami vehicles over the past year. The following information is from Carlton and shows the level of activity currently in Japan.

Art/collectables house Robert Harrop in the UK has just released a set of figures and vehicles. The set appears to be made of ceramic (it's hard to tell from the web site) and includes the main cast of (original) Thunderbirds as well as Thunderbird One landing and Thunderbird Two in take off mode. They look very nice and seem reasonably priced. Retail on the figures is approx