Show Of Hands – Steve Knightley and Phil Beer – headline the Royal Albert Hall for the fourth time tonight. Their 21 year career has taken them from playing pub gigs on the South Coast to national and international acclaim – while remaining completely off the radar of the mainstream record industry. In 1997 Steve more »
Video of my workshop on live solo performance for this year’s BBC Introducing Masterclass at Abbey Road Studio 2, Thur 19th January 2012 . The climax was a short set by my special guest Frank Turner which starts at 1:02:00 However, since you may not have a spare and hour and a quarter to watch the whole more »
This morning in the small hours (1-3am) we held a virtual party on Twitter to mark our last late-night Fresh On The Net radio show. If you’d like to see everybody’s tweets, the hashtag was #FarewellFOTN However, when one door closes another opens – and from this Easter weekend I’ll be involved in some new more »
This Week’s Fresh Faves as chosen by you, our readers, from a field of 26 strong contenders. You can see who picked what on last week’s Listening Post. These tracks aren’t “better” than the other 16 – they’re just the ten that you (and we) happened to like the most. Listed in alphabetical order: ALEX more »
BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music every week since 28 October 2008 and will end on 2 April 2012. It started out as a single 120 minute show that went out every Saturday night from midnight (technically Sunday morning). In June 2008 it was expanded to two more »
On March 17th 1962, Alexis Korner & Cyril Davies founded what was to be Britain’s first dedicated electric blues club (or Rhythm and Blues club) at a basement premises opposite Ealing Broadway station. At that venue in April 1962, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met Brian Jones which subsequently led to the formation of The more »
Categories for the First Annual NowPlaying Blog Awards Live on 6 music tonight 8-9pm Use #blog6music as hashtag to take part! * Best Tease of the Last 12 Months hosted by The Recommender * Tomorrow’s Cult Artist Today hosted by The Quietus * Must See New Band for Summer 2012 hosted by Drowned in Sound more »
Pic: Amanda Palmer by Burns! on Flickr Any artist interested in promoting their career without heaps of cash or insider contacts should read this article by Chris Salmon from today’s Guardian. You may or may not like the music artists Chris has chosen as his examples, but every one of them is Doing Something Right more »
We have a second batch of tracks from our inbox ready for listening – nearly fifty songs – and would love to get your help rating them. “Who has time to listen to 50 songs?” I hear you cry. Welcome to the world of music blogging :-( Everyone has their own way of coping with more »
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