An early broadcast of of Tom Robinson’s Evening Sequence from the 6 Music studios – pic comes courtesy of a great 1932 photoset on Flickr tweeted by Jem Stone. Read more on the BBC’s 80th Anniversary of Broadcasting House.
By Charlotte Krol Guest blogger & Friend of Freshnet Yesterday BBC Radio 1 released figures from the BPI and Official Charts Company that show a 25% decrease in CD sales from 20.5 million in the first three months of 2011, to 15.3 million this year. Digital sales are instead increasing and account for almost more »
According to Wikipedia New York’s Anti-Folk movement started in the early 1980s when a booker at Folk City told singer-songwriter Lach that his music was “too punk” for a gig there. Lach started an after-hours club of his own on the Lower East Side called The Fort – and since its opening coincided with the city’s Folk more »
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 »
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 »
This morning in the small hours (1-3am) we held a virtual party on Twitter to mark our last late-night Fresh On The Net radio show. If you’d like to see everybody’s tweets, the hashtag was #FarewellFOTN However, when one door closes another opens – and from this Easter weekend I’ll be involved in some new more »
BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music every week since 28 October 2008 and will end on 2 April 2012. It started out as a single 120 minute show that went out every Saturday night from midnight (technically Sunday morning). In June 2008 it was expanded to two more »
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