Maida Vale audience [photo: Richard Banks] My new BBC blog launched this week – with a first post covering this week’s happenings on 6 Music’s BBC Introducing Week, and a new post today about last night’s Maida Vale event – which I co-hosted with Steve Lamacq. We presented four of our favourite artists: Babe Shadow, [...]
April 10, 2010 – 12:16 pm
Friday Suppertime show on 6 Music – 1 hour duration 1900-2000 with specialk guest Mr Fogg playing live on the show. Listen again to whole show here. Tracklisting: Bonnie And Clyde SERGE GAINSBOURG Lonely’s Lunch YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! Joy Division Oven Gloves HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT Worship The Sun BLACK DIAMOND BAY [...]
This week on 6 Music Introducing we bring you a free mixtape featuring some of our favourite artists from the first three months of 2010, available as two 16-track downloads via the podcast links below. Share and enjoy! Mixtape Side A POLAR SETS – Then A Girl Falls In Your Arms http://polarsets.bandcamp.com STEALING SHEEP – [...]
March 12, 2010 – 12:20 pm
Yes of course I’m gutted about the proposed closure of 6 Music. Steve Lamacq has already said pretty much everything a presenter can say on the subject on his blog – though keep an eye on Adam Buxton in the next few days… However I haven’t read as much about the impact that closing Asian [...]
Haha – should have known those crafty selfpublicists OK Go! had ulterior motives when Damian slagged off EMI in the New York Times. They already had a killer video up their sleeve and EMI allegedly wouldn’t let them make it embeddable on YouTube. Solution: leave EMI. Result: almost 8 million views in two weeks, and rising [...]
All things considered, “The Axe Factor” is an ironic choice of name for a new feature on BBC 6 Music in March 2010. But hey – why not click on the link and go vote for your favourite alt/indie guitar player of the last 30 years. Meanwhile the 6 Music Interactive team handed me their [...]
February 27, 2010 – 2:16 pm
For latest example of shortsighted corporate folly by the record industry, see this story in NY Times by Damian Kulash from OK Go! “In 2006 we made a video of us dancing on treadmills for our song “Here It Goes Again.” We shot it at my sister’s house without telling EMI, our record company, and [...]
February 14, 2010 – 7:24 pm
Saw this man busking under Hungerford Bridge on London’s South band this afternoon. Would be great to hear a musician of this calibre playing these instruments in a band context – his excellent blog can be found at http://hyperstimulation.wordpress.com
February 10, 2010 – 7:47 pm
Crazy Screwed-Up Lady is the followup single to the astonishing Problems by COSMO JARVIS, which came out in November 2009. It’s due out as a single (from Wall Of Sound records) on March 22nd, though the record company has apparently declared the video lacks enough “impact” to get played on TV. if you like this, [...]
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