In a renewed effort to promote British music on US shores, a new tour will be kicking off from LA in May. The Brit Bus Tour is hoping to help a few British acts get their name and guitars out and loud on American shores. Welsh artist Julia Jones founded the Brit Bus tour last year in an attempt to alleviate the financial difficulty new British acts have in touring North America...

"For far too long new British bands have failed to make an impression in The States as the scale of the country and prohibitive promotional costs have combined to make access to this huge record buying public extremely difficult."
"This could be the big break that a new British band is looking for. We expect thousands of responses and look forward to working with the winner and inviting them to join us at our final event in New York."

In Jones' attempt to even the scales she has attracted support from the UK Government, The British Phonographic Industry as well as organizations such as Virgin Megastores, Visit Britain, Gibson Guitar and more. The artists on tour have not yet been announced but major acts such as The Magic Numbers, Hard-Fi, and Paul Oakenfold have thrown their support behind the project by boarding the bus on it's kickoff on May 1 in LA to sign CD's and Epiphone guitars that will be given away as prizes throughout the tour. Further information is available at britbustour.com.