BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net shows (2007-2012) My first BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net shows began on 6 Music in October 2007 and over the next four and a half years we gave national airplay to over ten thousand tracks by independent artists across a wide variety of genres. In April this year Fresh On The Net moved online here as an independent…
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Merry Christmas! And welcome to this new edition of Six Degrees Christmas special with the collaboration of our bands, and readers. Six degrees always features 6 bands: 2 videos, 2 tracks and 2 live performances. But today we have special guests. During the last month we have been receiving many songs and videos for this special day. Thank you to all the bands and artists…
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THIS WEEK: MR BIRD Mr Bird is musician/DJ and producer Steve Bird - originally from Newcastle and now based in sunny Lisbon in Portugal. He has been co-running two record labels - Master Press Recordings and Heavy Duty Booty - and has just started a third - Fat Bird Sounds. Steve also has an album coming out early next year on BBE Records with UK…
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This week our Fresh Faves are reviewed by Jim Craigen from AlternativeFriday.com This Listening Post may have been the last of 2012, but it was by no means the least, as we had 31 very strong tracks for us to listen and vote for, so thanks from all of us at Team Freshnet to the artists - and especially to those who voted - both…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK: LONESOUND Lonesound is an Indie Guitar Pop act based in Dalston, London - in which James Ewers writes and arranges the songs - and also plays everything, bar the drums. James is blessed with a gift of a voice that sounds great on record, on radio and (alright, this is an educated guess) live too, I'm willing to bet. It sounds like The…
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This week's Fresh Faves, chosen by readers over the weekend, are reviewed by special guest Howard Gorman, editor-in-chief at ppsf.co.uk - the website dedicated to Putting Performers and Stand-ups First. Welcome on board, Howard! Well it's everyone's least favourite day of the week until about this time of the day when the Fresh Faves are unleashed. It’s always a pleasure to see voters commenting on…
Read MoreI worked on a Kent farm for six weeks as a hop picker to buy my first professional guitar - an Epiphone Texan advertised in melody Maker that cost the huge sum of £78. Unfortunately there was no money left over for a padded case, and in my rush to take it over to Queensway and show it to my mentor Alexis Korner, I slipped…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK : GREG BLACKMAN Greg Blackman is a soul singer,songwriter & musician based in Colchester,Essex. As well as being an independent singer, songwriter and professional musician in his own right, GB also forms one half of 'The Paragons Of Goodness' with long-time friend & collaborator Nathan Wacey of Long Track Studios and works as a songwriter and vocalist with and for DJ Vadim, Nightmares…
Read MoreBack around 2001, it must have been, Miles Hunt from The Wonderstuff told me to come and see a new American singer-songwriter at The Borderline in London with him. To be honest, my heart sank - with the mental image of yet another dreary troubadour plucking lifelessly at the strings of an acoustic guitar while sat on a stool and warbling about man's inhumanity to…
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Well its big ol’ week on the Fresh Faves front with no less than 14 tracks being included. This surely is a bonus for everyone involved, especially me as I get to find out a little more about each of the chosen many, as opposed to just listening and deciding if I like them or not in the Listening Post stages. So without further or…
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