For the last 50 years music radio has basically been a shop window for the music industry to advertise and promote its products – and our new friday night show NowPlaying@6Music reperesents a small step away from that model. All the tunes we’re playing on the show are sourced from public conversations with our listeners [...]
This Friday (April 8th) will be our first-ever edition of Now Playing @6Music – hurrah! And we’re going to need the help of g Music listeners to decide on a playlist – which we’ll base around one of this week’s major music news stories. Obviously the first thing for us all to thrash out will [...]
The independent radio production company Somethin’ Else have been commissioned to create a brand new cross-platform project for BBC 6 Music, fusing music with digital content. The commission – called Now Playing @6Music – will consist of a weekly radio show hosted by Tom Robinson, airing the most shared, recommended and discussed music online and [...]
Full length version of a contribution to the March 2011 edition of ‘M‘ – the PRS For Music members’ magazine. They asked for ten tracks and a brief description of what was appealing about each song. It was hard to resist trying to slip in an extra track so there are eleven here – and [...]
from Audio AntiHero Records “How to make the best of a dying industry despite being a shy and unremarkable fellow: The Jamie Halliday Story.” I run Audio Antihero Records, Specialists in Commercial Suicide: (Nosferatu D2/Benjamin Shaw/Jack Hayter) and I was kindly invited by Tom Robinson to write a guest blog about running an independent label. [...]
Really interesting interview with Joi Ito in last Sunday’s Observer: “I’m not sure about the idea that information is the same as a thing – so if you give it away, you don’t have it anymore. A banana is worth a dollar, you give it away and you don’t have it anymore. But that’s a [...]
The great bluesman and broadcaster Alexis Korner died in 1984 – at the age of 54 – having helped shape the course of postwar popular music. From the late 50s to the early 80s he mentored and inspired the young musicians who would later form the Rolling Stones, Small Faces, Cream, Manfred Mann, Free, Led [...]
Thanks to the seminal Northampton post-punk outfit Coil for providing this press cutting from Smash Hits dated around Oct/Nov 1980. Their song “Motor Industry” was a particular favourite at the time, hence its appearance in this list which is posted among the photos on their MySpace page. Alas the UK motor industry no longer inhabits [...]
A wide cross-section of performers – including myself – joined forces with Colin Firth recently for a unique stage performance and documentary film celebrating moments in UK history when ordinary people have spoken out for change. This is a UK edition of THE PEOPLE SPEAK and was directed by Anthony Arnove. Anthony co-founded the original US [...]
Most of us usually put our music online in the hope that fans, managers, agents, publishers, venues, promoters, DJs, producers and potential investors are going to discover us and help advance our musical careers. It stands to reason that busy music professionals will probably want to drop you a line if they’re interested. But it [...]
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