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Resources, ideas and advice for independent recording artists hosted by Tom Robinson
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Category Archives: Music Resources

THE OTHER WOMAN: DIVORCE/ DEBBIE MILLER

Divorce – Wet Bandit These Glaswegian punk rockers play it ear-splittingly loud. When seeing them live at a tiny venue in north London, we left with ears ringing and silly grins on our faces. This video was made by guitarist Vickie and will bend your brain, Horseheads the 7″ is available from Milk Records or more »

The New Sound of Colchester

Something is stirring in Colchester, Essex and man oh man does it feel good. Already this place boasts a strong selection of established and emerging artists and now add to that some excellent unsigned new young ‘uns and it is becoming quite a hotbed for discovering interesting & vibrant music. So – to the young more »

THE OTHER WOMAN: PINS/ DONNA FULLMAN

Pins – Eleventh Hour The blogosphere is having a love affair with this video from Manchester four piece Pins. It hit the net last week and has been posted on many a discerning blog, especially as the video’s director Sing J. Lee is being heralded as the frontrunner of a new wave of young, creative more »

Fresh Faves 9th April 2012

Stop the press, put down that Easter Egg, SiCo sit down and shut up because the people have spoken and another batch of the freshest tracks available on the world wide web as chosen by Fresh On The Net users have been voted for and decided upon. This weeks batch of new tunes was so more »

New Introducing Mixtape Show

My new Introducing Mixtape show goes out on 6 Music at 2-3am tonight Easter Sunday night (technically Easter Monday morning) and will then immediately be downloadable from 3am on my BBC 6 Music Downloads page. And once they’ve appeared on the mixtape, some tracks will also stand get played the following weekend on my new more »

Show Of Hands

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 »

Stand And Deliver

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 »

HOME Volume 3

Ey oop chucks, how’s your life? I thought I’d drop a line or two on the FOTN pages about a forthcoming album that is being given away as a gift. Yep, for free – no money, no empty promises, no love ya and leave ya… Just twenty individual artists and twenty individual songs that are as warm more »

Fresh Faves: 2nd April 2012

Good morning and welcome to this week’s batch of 9 Fresh Faves – handpicked by Team Freshnet from our inbox last week, then rated by readers on our Listening Post. Big thanks to everyone who took the time to come and pick their favourites over the weekend. Click on Read more… to see the full list more »

THE OTHER WOMAN: Lulu James/ All We Are

Lulu James – Rope Mirage This young Newcastle lass has already supported Ghostpoet in her hometown and launches her Rope Mirage EP at The Cluny on 30th April. You know when you get the feeling that someone’s suddenly going to go stratospheric? That’s the overwhelming vibe from this talented 21 year old who calls her more »

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