In alphabetical order here are the ten-most-liked tracks from our first batch. There were a good many interesting artists to choose from and several I was sorry didn’t make this list – including Glasgow’s Dirty Keys and Bristol’s Rock In Your Pocket – but hey, these are the ten tracks that the most people found more »
Hi Tom – I’ve often read your blog and twitter posts and was wondering if you could offer some general advice? In the last year, I feel I’ve achieved a lot to be proud of musically. My acoustic album TESS magpie has been well reviewed in MOJO, Radio2 etc (you can see my full press more »
My interview last year with the London band Raven Beats Crow has been visually reimagined by… erm, the London band Raven Beats Crow. This might be a good moment to mention they’ll be releasing another deranged single soon called “Second Floor” – but you don’t have to wait, you can hear it streaming below. Londoners more »
Sean Biggerstaff from Wrongnote performing in the basement bar at Nice N Sleazy in Glasgow, 23 Jan 2012. The Acoustic Open Mic Night there every Monday is skilfully hosted by Gerry Lyons to create a friendly welcoming vibe – highly recommended as a night out. Sean tells me: “The song is Serve You by the more »
To The End of The World is a jugband anthem for extinction by Glasgow’s THE BIG NOWHERE – a group sketched out in 2008 on the back of a cigarette packet by Doctors Billy Crowe & Simon Sinclair. Both claim to be “graduates from the school of lifemanship who hold Phds in Rapscallionry, Fisticuffs and more »
Video from my workshop at the 2012 BBC Introducing Masterclass at Abbey Road on the psychology of songwriting. My biggest problem on the day was that a shuttle bus from Maida Vale was delayed, so a lot of people booked for the session didn’t make it. Whether you’re playing a gig or giving a talk more »
This email came in today, and I wondered if anyone might like to help answer it? hi tom this is probably your four hundreth request to listen my words lyrics poems this week, so hi my name’s john veasay i write poems and short stories anything really at the moment im putting my poems etc more »
It was August 2008 back in the days when MySpace was still King that we first stumbled across Concrete (When We Were Invincible) by The October Game – a song of such aching emotional purity that it remains one of our all time Introducing classics. Everything about it was perfect – Luke WIlliams’ lovely yearning more »
Fast, furious and with an echo of Pop Will Eat Itself at their agitrap finest.
OK – I was forwarded an email from Brian Eno this afternoon, asking people to circulate it as widely as possible. To declare an interest, I work for the BBC where the cynically-named Delivering Quality First cuts are about to take a bite out of my little corner of the world. So if this had more »
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