Michael Weston King released his second solo record A New Kind of Loneliness (FW 031) for Floating World on April 16th, 2007.

Produced by Michael and Jim Spencer, most of the album was recorded at The Charlatans studio in Manchester. Ron Sexsmith provides harmonies on 'From Out Of The Blue' while Jackie Leven adds his distinctive guitar and vocals on several tracks. Former Byrd Chris Hillman also appears on 'My Heart Stopped Today'.

"Bleak is the colour of cult Northern songwriter's new world of pain. You can't always reduce great music to categories of 'happy' or 'sad'. Its real quality may be a fullness of heart... a special and under-celebrated talent" The Word

Michael's song 'I Fall Behind' was recently featured in the new US hit TV show Army Wives. For more info on the show go to www.tv.com/army-wives

Released on October 8th, 2007 is an album called Old Wine/ New Skins which accompanies a book entitled, "The Folk Compendium" , which has already been critically well-received by the 'Independent on Sunday' newspaper in the UK. Michael has contributed to this album by recording a version of the traditonal song 'What Is the Life Of A Man'. For more info go to www.backbeatbooks.com or contact peter@duskfire.co.uk

The dvd The Crowning Story is now being distributed in Germany by Broken Silence www.brokensilence.biz