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PRESS RELEASE 10/10/08......

FRAGILE AWAKEN!

Founded by Max Hunt, Johnny Marter, Chris Hook, Rob Illes & Tom Dawe, AWAKEN started up in early 2008 following FRAGILE's move to stop working as a regular band after their European tour with Steve Howe at the end of 2007. The band did a launch gig in Swindon in early Summer, which was was followed up with another warm up show in Tintagel in August 2008.

Following positive discussions between all parties, Fragile's Steve Carney performed lead vocals with Awaken at the Tintagel show. The gig convinced Steve that the Awaken line up had enormous potential and re-ignited his passion for live work. Similarly the Mathew Street Festival ‘reunion’ a week later reaffirmed Fragile as an enduring act that Yes fans will travel far and wide to see, with the band performing to an audience in excess of 11,000.

Following this Max and Steve considered the possibility of a mutually beneficial merger. This wonderful development brings together the strength of the Fragile brand with the energy and dynamism of the new Awaken project.

The Awaken band have now relaunched as FRAGILE with Steve Carney on Lead Vocals. Ollie Finn was an instrumental force in helping to get Awaken up and running and the members of Awaken/Fragile would like like pass their sincere thanks to Ollie for his help and support

For more information visit www.yestribute.com and www.myspace.com/fragileyestribute

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Member Since: 23/11/2007
Band Members: ROBERT ILLESH (Guitars/Vocals) - MAX HUNT (Keys/Vocals) - OLLIE FINN (Lead Vocals) - TOM DAWE (Guitar/Vocals/Sundry) - CHRIS HOOK (Bass/Vocals) - JOHNNY MARTER (Drums/Vocals)
Influences: YES, JON ANDERSON, STEVE HOWE, ASIA, RICK WAKEMAN, VANGELIS, JETHRO TULL, LED ZEPPELIN, DEEP PURPLE, GENTLE GIANT
Sounds Like: YES
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Major

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PRESS RELEASE 10/10/08......FRAGILE AWAKEN!

PRESS RELEASE 10/10/08...... FRAGILE AWAKEN! Founded by Max Hunt, Johnny Marter, Chris Hook, Rob Illes & Tom Dawe, AWAKEN started up in early 2008 following FRAGILE's move to stop working as a re...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:51:00 GMT

15th July - Latest news

The Riffs gig was a great start for us....many thanks to the small but very enthusiastic audience that attended.....we're now looking forward to our second outing in Tintagel with a further ...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:24:00 GMT

9th May 2008- Moonfest News

Hi, We've just heard that unfortunately we won't be playing Moonfest in Westbury after all. We had been booked to play the Riffs Marquee stage on Saturday 30th August after 11pm but organisers have no...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 02:47:00 GMT

1st May 2008 - First AWAKEN live dates announced

AWAKEN are pleased to announce that they are playing the following inaugural dates this Summer:   June 18th - Riffs Bar, Swindon http://www.riffsbar.biz/ (This'll be our first live outing - ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 03:00:00 GMT

31st March 2008 - Jon Anderson & Max (Notes From The Edge interview)

Jon has recently mentioned work that he’s doing with Max in a new interview posted on the latest issue of Notes From The Edge (http://www.nfte.org/current-issue.html), where Jon discribes Max as...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:51:00 GMT

1st March 2008 - Awaken has Awoken

Hi all, We’re pleased to announce that AWAKEN is now officially up and running. We had the first session working through Roundabout, Heart of The Sunrise & Yours Is No Disgrace a couple of w...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:20:00 GMT

22nd November 2007 - Welcome to the new UK YES tribute project AWAKEN

Hi all and welcome to our new myspace! We'll be posting info, news, music and pics as we have it. We hope to have a live band ready for shows in 2008.
Posted by on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:40:00 GMT