August 22, 2010 – 4:31 pm
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 [...]
August 20, 2010 – 3:19 pm
Far and away the funniest, sharpest band performance video I’ve seen in ages, this is the new single from Hold Your Horse Is “You Show Up” – which they’re currently offering as a free download. The vid was made by John Peddie’s JProductions company: in an era of constantly tracking camera angles, flashy VR effects [...]
August 7, 2010 – 11:41 am
Sometimes the figure offering salvation from physical or spiritual peril isn’t who we’d expect, as Tom Robinson reflects in Knights In Shining Armour. This episode of Something Understood was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday 1 August 2010 at 0615. Producer: Alan Hall. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. Music Music [...]
I was gutted to miss Merrill Garbus (aka tUnE-yArDs) at Glastonbury last week. We heard an outstanding session from her on the Marc Riley show earlier this year, but somehow it’s only when you actually see her smashing out “Hatari” with nothing but a ukulele, that you appreciate the true wild originality of her talent. [...]
Patch William are a band we played back on the very first edition of Introducing: Fresh On The Net in October 2007 when most of the band were still fresh out of school and one of them was still there. It’s been a joy watching them grow and achieve wider recognition ever since, with the [...]
Before we recently played the above track “Panzoni Pasta” by oddball French outfit VLADIMIR BOZAR ‘N’ ZE SHERAF ORKESTÄR the BBC compliance department asked us to find out what the words actually meant, and Pedral kindly replied as follows: ———————————————————— OK, so the lyrics are very stupide! Sorry in advance! It’s about suicide and pasta:) [...]
This is the best DIY self-introduction by a new act we’ve seen in a long while. Instead of waiting for a national broadcast network or multinational record company to come along and “discover” them, The Beaus have hit the ground running and created their own momentum. Obviously some fairly shrewd managerial mind has organised the [...]
Slept late this morning, came down to a favourite breakfast with my favourite people. Big thanks for the lovely presents (you know who you are) but this birthday card from my wife was the high, erm, point of the morning… Highpoint of the evening will be tonight’s Glad To Be Grey gig at Shepherds Bush [...]
Friends, musicians and listeners – I’m celebrating my 60th birthday in three weeks’ time on June 1st with a self-financed gig at Shepherds Bush Empire in London – and you can help us spread the word about this great night out: My band includes punk legend TV SMITH on guitar and award-winning composer and producer [...]
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, [...]
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