Folks, BBC Introducing is a free service designed to help emerging UK artists get heard. But we at the BBC can't help you unless you help us too - by actually sending us your music via bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/uploader... Between 150-200 tracks arrive in our Soundcloud dropbox here at Fresh On The Net each Mon - Thur and our entire moderation team, including me, listens to every…
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I'm currently halfway through a solo acoustic tour of the UK - on which fellow FOTN moderator Benji Tranter is looking after backline and merchandise for us. On Saturday night our entire touring party of ended up sitting around in the rather unwelcoming lobby of a hotel on the outskirts of Selby called The Wishing Well. The night manager was a bit surly and unhelpful,…
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It's our proud boast at Fresh On The Net that any artist, anywhere, can send us a track and a dozen of our moderators - with a wide range of musical tastes - will listen to it. We don't offer feedback on individual tunes, but we do guarantee to listen to every single one. If one or more of us falls in love with your…
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I'm always thinking of cost-effective ways of promoting artists, but here's a promotion campaign - for Nine Inch Nails' 2007 album Year Zero - that was the exact opposite. This multi-platform experience was created by Trent Reznor in collaboration with 42 Entertainment in a project which Rolling Stone called "the most innovative promotion scheme since the leaked sex tape." Year Zero is a post-apocalyptic album…
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This week we had a detailed and thought-provoking comment on our latest Fresh Faves by a reader who gave his name only as John - complaining about the fact that Cattle & Cane had been allowed onto last weekend's Listening Post: If the reasoning behind the listening post and the fresh favourites is to help up and coming un-established artists get their music heard by…
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On the 22nd of January 1972 my whole world turned upside down. Melody Maker ran a front-page article by Mick Watts on a little-known singer called David Bowie, which I read over and over again. "He's gay, he says. Mmmmmmmm. The paradox is that he still has what he describes as 'a good relationship' with his wife. And his baby son, Zowie. He supposes he's…
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Featuring Billy Bragg and Lisa Knapp, The Mighty Sword Of Justice comes from new Tom Robinson album Only The Now which is released tomorrow (Friday 16 October) followed by a major UK tour. Written in support of The Justice Alliance defending UK Legal Aid, this track includes additional vocals by Martin Carthy, and Colin Firth as the newsreader. Also featured: producer Gerry Diver on fiddle,…
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Dear friends Of Freshnet - I hope you'll forgive a quick burst of shameless selfpromotion, but after dispensing advice to other people on how to promote their music all these years, it's time for me to try following some of it myself. My own album Only The Now is coming out on October 15th, so if you've found any of my work here at Fresh…
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The Print Bank Charitable Trust, sponsored by rockarchive.com presents a unique charity fundraising event - and opportunity for collectors - this Saturday 16 May 2015 at the RAH Elgar Room in London. It consists of an exclusive auction, party and exhibition of photographs shot by some of the world's leading music photographers. A drinks reception with canapés - hosted by myself, Tom Robinson - will…
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Palestine Music Expo 2017
This email arrived today from Martin Goldschmidt - the founder and chairman of legendary UK indie label Cooking Vinyl "Last November I went to Israel for the first time to see the industry showcase Tune In Tel Aviv. Jeremy from Tune in Tel Aviv kindly also hooked me up with some Palestinian musicians who took me around the West Bank. We met their fellow musicians…
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